HID6460 LONG TERM EQUIPMENT PLANNER
Advertised: 03 December 2025
Harmony Australasia
Mining, Oil and Gas | Papua New Guinea
We are seeking to recruit a Long Term Equipment Planner for our Mobile Fleet Maintenance – Planning Department. Reporting to the Senior Planner, the core objective is to improve the flow of planned work by providing comprehensive Shut Down plans to the relevant Equipment Planning and Scheduling teams. The Long Term Equipment Planner is accountable for developing planned work packs for all Shutdown work, including its scoping, its planning, materials ordering, and its resourcing. The development of the long-range maintenance plan requires ongoing review of a 12-month rolling plan, building a 6 Month Forward Plan for Supply and Procurement to source and stage all parts on site 2 weeks prior to scheduled Shutdown start dates.
Key roles and responsibilities include:
- Comply with all Systems of Work requirements for the position as per document PY 182 "MFM Work Management Process".
- Accountable for developing planned work packs for all Shutdown work, including its scoping, planning, materials ordering and resourcing
- Provide comprehensive Shutdown Plans to relevant Equipment Planning and Scheduling Teams.
- Ensure a 6-month Forward Plan for Supply and Procurement is built to source and stage all parts on site 2 weeks prior to scheduled Shutdown start dates.
- Provide advice to supervisors, superintendents and other stakeholders and report on implications of changes to schedules and key maintenance activities.
- Attend to Equipment Strategy Meeting Actions
- Ensure Shutdown maintenances costs have been accurately charged against correct equipment.
- Produce monthly progress reports for use by the leadership team
- Establish sustainable partnerships with key customers and stakeholders to ensure the shutdown schedule is understood and owned
- Develop and manage a 12-month rolling long range maintenance plan
- Oversee the successful management of long-term planning of shutdown process
- Confirm return flights to site are true and accurate prior to departing for Field Break to ensure sufficient manning
Qualifications, Skills and Experience required:
- Must have over three (3) year experience in long term planning and shutdown planning in an open-pit mining or heavy vehicle service environment
- Must have experience with mobile equipment and similar roles in long range forecasting and planning
- Experience in CMMS preferably Pronto and data management of CMMS Systems
- Excellent technical problem solving and time management skills
- Demonstrated ability to prepare and track maintenance forecasts to a high compliance
- Developing and implementing long-term strategic shut plans aligned with the organization's goals.
- Conducting research and analysis to identify opportunities and potential risks.
- Coordinate with workshop/field supervisors and coordinators, as well as other departments to ensure plan is aligned
- Monitoring and evaluating the progress of shut plans, and provide progressive updates
- Strong computer literacy skills, - Microsoft (Word, Excel, Outlook, MS Projects)
The above role is Hidden Valley mine site based.
If you are interested in this exciting and challenging opportunity and confident you have the skills, knowledge and experience to fulfil this role then please apply by email to [email protected]
Note: Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted
Application closes Wednesday 17th December 2025
More information
Job ID: #25334
Industry: Mining, Oil and Gas
Location: Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea
Company: Harmony Australasia
Company Description: The Hidden Valley mine is an open pit gold and silver mine, situated in the Morobe province in Papua New Guinea, some 210km northwest of Port Moresby and approximately 90km south-southwest from Lae, the capital of the province. The mine is located at elevations between 2 800m and 1 700m above sea level within steep mountainous and forested terrain that experiences approximately 3m of rainfall per year. The major gold and silver deposits of Hidden Valley are located in the Morobe Granodiorite of the Wau Graben. Crushed ore is conveyed from the Hidden Valley pit via a 3.8km long overland pipe conveyor and is treated at the Hidden Valley processing plant, which uses a two stage crushing circuit followed by a SAG mill, gravity, CCD/Merril Crowe circuit for silver and carbon-in-leach circuit for the gold.
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